CVE-2022-45441
Published: 07 February 2023
Summary
CVE-2022-45441 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Zyxel Nbg-418N Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 6.1 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 28.1% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2022-48312
Vulnerability details
A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Zyxel NBG-418N v2 firmware versions prior to V1.00(AARP.13)C0, which could allow an attacker to store malicious scripts in the Logs page of the GUI on a vulnerable device. A successful XSS attack could force…
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an authenticated user to execute the stored malicious scripts and then result in a denial-of-service (DoS) condition when the user visits the Logs page of the GUI on the device.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Penetration testing submits XSS payloads to web applications, detecting cross-site scripting flaws for subsequent remediation.
Validates web inputs to reject script-related content that could produce XSS.
Output validation against expected content can reject or sanitize script content in generated web pages, reducing XSS exploitability.